As prices rose and rose, we had the ministerial alibis.
All the housewives who were betrayed in 1970 have had is excuses and contrived alibis.
In all the subsequent welter of alibis and excuses, one thing stands out.
I believe the same to be true of his, to my mind, acceptable proposals for the restriction of last-minute alibis.
Like all good cover stories, there is an element of truth in both alibis.
Do they not just mean more bureaucracy, would they not to some extent just be alibis for action?
We will not allow any political alibis in this regard.
Our system results in governments who can govern and governments who have no alibis if they make a mess of things.